Swarm Creativity Blog

We have now opened registration for our cool new CoolPeople application . CoolPeople finds influencers, trendsetters, and creators, and even measures their success. This can be done for example for "nanotechnology entrepreneurs in India", but also for "John Smith". It even finds the attributes of the people related to "John Smith". The picture below shows the CoolPeople network about the topic "Swarm Creativity" as a cybermap social network picture. The next picture shows the CoolPeople list view of the CoolPeople query "US President" If you want to see even more before pre-registering, try a dynamic preview: click on the "Condor" picture here which will bring up a dynamic cybermap about "swarm creativity".

Today I read a brief article in the Swiss Newspaper NZZ about the newly published ranking of the top 100 living intellectuals . Over a half million people voted over the Internet to find out the World's top intellectuals in a vote organized by the UK magazine "Prospect and Foreign Policy". This was a rerun of a campaign that concluded in 2005 that Noam Chomsky and Umberto Eco were the most influential intellectuals. This time, early leaders were Maria Vargas Llosa, Gary Kasparov, and Al Gore. But then a campaign was organized for the Turkish islamist preacher Fethullah Gülen, leading him to a resounding victory. According to Prospect , the leading Turkish newspaper Zaman with a circulation of over 700000 succeeded in rallying its readers behind Fethullah Gülen. However, other newspapers in Indonesia, Bulgaria, or Malaysia launched similar campaigns, with little success. Here are the top 12 intellectuals (in parenthesis is the ranking of 2005): 1 Fethullah Gülen (*) 2 Muha...